An 18-year-old woman, Alyssa Nicole Skikus of Minster, Ohio, was rushed by a private vehicle to Joint Township Hospital, following an accident that occurred in McLean, Shelby, Ohio on December 19, 2013 at approximately 8:11 am. Reports from the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office are that the woman was driving a 2000 Ford Taurus compact car, east on Wells Road in the 5,000 Block. The car allegedly struck a snow drift in the travel side of the roadway. It crossed the centerline and went off the north side of the roadway, where it struck a ditch.

Accidents in which vehicles struck ditches amounted to 2,164, which caused injuries in 2011. In 2012, McLean, Shelby, Ohio, had a population of 3,082; there were 10 injury crashes, which resulted in 13 injuries. Vehicles that were involved in accidents, which the drivers failed to control, amounted to 10,478, which caused injuries. In Ohio in 2010, accidents, which occurred and were not a collision of two vehicles in transport amounted to 23,253, which caused injuries. Accidents that were caused by snow on the road and resulted in injuries were 3,734 in Ohio, in 2011.

If you’ve been injured in McLean, Loramie or Salem, Ohio, please call the Shelby County, Ohio, car accident attorneys at Chester Law Group at 800-218-4243.